Author:
Ao Yang

Doi: 10.26480/ccsj.01.2020.01.03

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Pale Fire is one of the most representative works of Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov. It is always seen by the academia as metafiction. Indeed, several features of this novel show that this novel is clearly metafiction. This article tries to analyze the three most distinctive features of Pale Fire, to explain why it is metafiction.